Author: John Lowe
Date: 13:50:00 12/21/02
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On December 21, 2002 at 16:22:45, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 21, 2002 at 16:08:39, John Lowe wrote: > >>You disappoint me Uri! >> >>Even my 30K amateur "no C were British" program knows about isolated, doubled, >>backward and passed pawns. >> >>Perhaps the Friday before the Christmas Holiday was bad timing for your >>unveiling of your dreams. >> >>Most of your audience is half cut by now..............................? > >Yes but my program has other knowledge that is more important and seems to have >chances against everything(it lost matches against list4.61 but got more than >20% inspite of always changing the first move and no pondering). > >I guess that after I add knowledge about pawn structure and king safety it can >become close to the top amateurs but even without it I believe that it is >clearly better than most of the amateurs. > >The problem is that I want to add it in a good way that means detecting also >weak passed pawns(I remember that hiarcs generated weak passed pawn against >smirin and it did not understand it). > >Uri No contest Uri! I started this program in 2000 and apart from looking for checkmate at 2 ply I never go above one ply. I'm taking the view that there's little point in it evaluating 10,000 positions per second if it doesn't know a good position when it sees one. Even with no search extensions it's winning it's fair share of games (Rebel Dacade thrashes it every time!) against a few professional programs that will play at 1-ply. Over-extending without support is a relevant fault to zap at the one-ply level. Challenge it in three years!
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